One could easily make the argument that the future of an entire franchise rested on the success or failure of FX's "Alien: Earth." The show is a dramatic deviation from the standard storytelling ...

The Alien franchise’s core themes have always been creation and evolution – and the nightmarish ways they can go wrong. In every Alien movie there have been two main ways that humans have faced the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/FX The nightmarish xenomorph, with its piston-like inner jaw and blood ...

Just when you think all is lost, Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) comes up with the most clever plan! She bravely confronts ...

This feature on Ridley Scott’s Alien and the franchise it launched was originally published as part of a package on the most beloved villains in science fiction. It has been updated and republished to ...